COURTNEY

I always thought Beckett was the man who I would marry. He had been my everything since we were 10. We were engaged by the time I turned 22.

Then, one day, he came to me with a plan to help save his cousin's inheritance. It would make me the villain of the story in everyone else's eyes. It would also mean that walk down the aisle would happen with the wrong man.

Still, Beckett asked. I granted him this crazy scheme, played along, and quickly learned that he had agreed to it because it freed him from me for a little while. I never knew he wanted out. He never let on until I had a different husband's ring on my finger and was forced to watch from the sidelines as Beckett carried on with other women.

Flynn was the shoulder I leaned on, and we grew closer as a result. Eventually, Beckett began to notice me again, but somewhere along the line, things changed. When I saw my future, he was no longer the man wearing the ring that matched my own.

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FLYNN

My cousin won our mutual best friend's heart long ago.

I'd hated him for it then.

I hated him for allowing her to marry me 'temporarily' even more.

I'd always been a little in love with Courtney, but watching as the light left her eyes when her fiancé threw her away, and paraded other women in front of her, made me want to show my beautiful new wife what it was like to be with the right Robeson man. I wanted to bring her light back. The only problem was, I had to do it before my cousin realized just how badly he had screwed up by letting her go in the first place.

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*A Different Husband is the third book in the Robeson Family Novels, but it is a standalone story. The Robeson Family Novels can be read in any order. There is no cheating by main characters, despite the arranged marriage.